The Angel with Golden Hair

Current practice project Since our guild meetings are only once a month, I thought I would start a new practice project to work on while I wait. This is what wikipedia has to say about The Angel with the Golden Hair: The Angel with Golden Hair (Russian: Ангел Златые власы, Angel Zlatye Vlasy) is a tempera …

Mary Magdalene movie- Netflix review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w47IJjuEV8o Let me start by saying I really wanted to like this movie. Aside from Mary, the Mother of God, Mary Magdalene is perhaps one of the most controversial women of the bible. She has been constantly vilified and has endured character assassination throughout history. All of that is for another blog post. I watched …

Orthodox Christian Holy Week

READING SCRIPTURE I was visiting some Youtube channels that I had watched during my 'seeker time' before I converted. I was looking at scripture reading plans and came across a video I will share with you below. https://www.youtube.com/embed/vhS3B0w3S7w

Getting back to church and a la cart topics

Next week is Passion Week. Tomorrow is Palm Sunday. There will be a liturgy every morning next week plus all of the services for Pascha. I have been gone from church so much that people had begun to ask my sister if I had moved! It is a delicate balance trying to attend when there …

Suffering as a Christian and Passion Week

St. Mary of Egypt. Yes, that is a lion in the background. It is digging her grave. If you have ever suffered as a Christian and have been part of a certain heretical doctrine that states 'really good' Christians should never suffer because if you live your life right the blessings of God over take …

I am hung over…

Archangel Michael From Fun! Who are my introverted followers? Can you relate? I do not get out very often these days. I spent 3.5 hours at the guild meting yesterday talking, laughing, learning, painting. I fell asleep at about 7:45 while watching, The Ten Commandments. Side note... I JUST found out that the hottie who …

Fanning the flames of dissent

I 'found' Leah Remini's IG account. I say 'found' because it was not lost... I just never before thought to look it up. I love her outspoken response to Scientology. As I was watching her reels, and listening to her talk about Scientology, I started thinking about my days as an Evangelical. There are many …

Writing icons

My pigments arrived on Friday. Because I was ill and could not attend the last guild meeting, I am far behind the rest of the class. The meetings last several hours and we cover quite a lot of 'ground' as we work (no pun intended). I will be busy catching up before the next meeting …

What can you learn from iconography?

Turns out... quite a bit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Y3Pcgb6dA

The Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy

Read more about it HERE.